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  1. Re:The best currency denominations on Greenbacks No More · · Score: 1
    With this in mind, the x4-5 system (0.01, 0.05, 0.25, 1, 5, 20, 100) doesn't seem that bad.

    Oh, and the x3 system minimal transaction depends on each party having one of at least denomination, no?

  2. Wake up on Inside the Cult of TiVo · · Score: 1

    Try the TiVo Community's help forum, if you haven't already.

  3. Re:What about Google, Altavista, Lycos, etc... on "Deep Linking" Controversy Renewed in Texas · · Score: 1
    I don't care if you link to "index.html" or "/news/04-02-02/index.html".

    Why append "index.html" onto every "directory" entry? It's a waste of bandwidth and cache. And, if the link gets on paper and has to be retyped, multiply that by x people and think of how much manpower you're wasting.

  4. Re:A Modest Proposal on "Deep Linking" Controversy Renewed in Texas · · Score: 1
    I propose that Slashdot, from now on, only provides links to pages in the Google cache.

    Append "except when material is too new to be therein"

    Better would be "I propose that, as a part of article submission, URLs become doubled - once for actual site and once for mirrored data (Google cache) - and the editor (Posted By) chooses the mirrored data link when functionally equivalent."

    Come to think of it, there isn't necessarily even a need to remove the Google cache link. Or, maybe a browser could be written that opens links with Google/web.archive.org/etc. automatically?

  5. Re:What about Google, Altavista, Lycos, etc... on "Deep Linking" Controversy Renewed in Texas · · Score: 1
    No, you're falling into the intellectual property grouping trap. There are four types:
    • Trade Secrets: you'd better hope they don't get let out!
    • Trademarks: these do need to be defended
    • Copyrights: these don't need to be defended
    • Patents: these don't need to be defended
    Dallas News can quite easily give Google et al a license to their copyrighted material while denying it to this site.
  6. Best solution of all here on Fighting Back Against EULAs · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have my pet rock hit the keys. I just hope they never throw it in jail.

  7. Better http links on IP Replaces Avian Carriers · · Score: 2, Informative
  8. Re:Huh? on Columbine Video-Games Suit Dismissed · · Score: 1
    Wouldn't the pong paddle's analog be the human's body? And if you hit the paddle/body, its deflected, no point.

    Maybe you're thinking of dodgeball.

  9. Re:Huh? on Columbine Video-Games Suit Dismissed · · Score: 1
    hell, i remember when pong came out. you shoulda seen how fast i got detention for throwing rocks at students and laughing at them when the rock didn't bounce back.
    You tend to lose at pong if you manage to hit the opponent, why should real life be different?
  10. Poster availability on Marvel Universe Is Almost Like *Real Life* Society · · Score: 1

    When is the poster coming out?

  11. Re:Universal File Formats on Linux *Won't* Fail on the Desktop? · · Score: 1
    Invalid RTF can easily crash MS Word (just don't close a table, Word dies...) because it's such a hotchpotch format, even Word cannot test the file for validity before it crashes.
    Really? Sounds like an exploitable vector for more trojans/viruses.
  12. Insist in timely response! on Lawrence Lessig Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    That's easy, just require the publishers to turn around orders within a month or so. If the work is truly in print, no problem.

  13. Wrong - no TiVo conflict on SONICblue Granted Broad Patent on DVR Technology · · Score: 1
    Part of the text is
    and wherein the processor further selects for removal a previously recorded show having a lower priority than the selected future shows if insufficient capacity exists for recording the future shows
    but the TiVo does not work this way.

    There is a priority for Season Passes that you can access via the Season Pass Priority Manager. But this is only for automatically scheduling future recordings, not for previously recorded shows.

    As for TiVo's deleting of previously recorded shows, it doesn't normally do this - it instead gives each show an expected deletion time. When the expected deletion time occurs, the show is marked deleteable (expired). Then any new show can overwrite it.

    Two big exceptions come to mind:

    • Hitting the record button while watching Live TV, as that can max out capacity quickly.
    • Watching an expired program that needs to be deleted when another program set to be recorded comes on.
    I'm pretty sure the TiVo deletes the oldest recording (again, not based on priority) for the latter case and gives a big warning for the former case but I'm not at home to check.

    Admittedly, claims 26 and 45 cover recording something else (e.g. Headline News) while idle and waiting for scheduled programming; there might be a conflict with Suggestions and TiVo Takes (the latter more recently called Teleworld Paid Programming).

    To summarize, most of these claims are for ReplayTV's particular idea of space management with its Guaranteed or not recordings and space set aside for particular channels and themes (as opposed to TiVo's method of putting everything into one big pool). For more on this, see http://replayfaq.reidpix.com/faq.asp?id=45 and ponder the question of which is easier to grok - the patent vs this priorities description. BTW, IANAL.

  14. Music sheets are unprotected speech? on Felten vs. RIAA Hearing · · Score: 1
    Surely by now there are robots that can read musical notes and construct something to play them.

    Now where'd I put that Mindstorms set?

  15. Get Smart! on Comdex 2001 Coverage With a Handheld Twist · · Score: 1

    The pictures are largely of wireless phones, so it's obviously a Control phone, updated for today's most lucrative market.

  16. Calculators too! on SSSCA Hearing October 25th: Free Software Threatened · · Score: 1
    • Calculator
    • Abacus
    • Beads on a string
  17. Windows Me? on Microsoft's Vision For Future Operating Systems · · Score: 1
    (side note, it just occurred to me that "Windows ME" could be said with the same tone, inflection, and connotation as "Fuck me!" as an expression of dismay -- "Go Windows yourself!").
    Uh, "fuck me" is supposed to be a good thing when encountered.
  18. Quiet enjoyment? on MS FrontPage Restricts Free Speech II (It's True!) · · Score: 2, Funny
    12. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES.
    ...
    ALSO, THERE IS NO WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, QUIET POSSESSION, CORRESPONDENCE TO DESCRIPTION OR NON-INFRINGEMENT WITH REGARD TO THE PRODUCT.
    So, if you enjoy XP, you must let others know.

    Furthermore, you can't have an XP machine running in a forest, as whether or not it makes a sound is indeterminable.

  19. Re:A Copyright Proposal on Anticircumvention Laws Seen as Threat to Science · · Score: 1

    You missed the word "exponentially".

  20. Re:property on Image Detecting Search Engines' Legal Fight Continues · · Score: 1
    If AOL really does this, you could advertise some URLs that would get them in trouble. Hmm...

    http://www.usps.gov/kiddieporn/
    http://www.mpaa.org/decss-source-code/

    And of course throw in some secure ports on .mil sites!
    (No, I don't condone this.)

  21. Re:More Microsoft 'Innovations' on Microsoft vs. Ximian · · Score: 1
    MicroTux - Microsoft's charming new mascot, a uniformed Puffin, who carries a paperclip in one hand and a WinXP box in the other.

    You misspelled an uninformed.

  22. Re:Five more? on Budget Satellite · · Score: 1

    You haven't heard of Moore's law? Of course, not everything is chips, but prices do tend to fall and/or some components get replaced with cheaper alternatives.

  23. Overall? on Welcome to Slashdot 2.2 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Meta Moderation received an overall at the maniacal hands of Cliff.

    Yeah, I thought it was getting too big for its britches.

  24. Magnesium! on Saintsong Releases A New Mini PC · · Score: 1

    This will really help when they create the Magnesium Limited Edition.

  25. Re:Just to be a dink... on What Makes You "High Risk" For SPAM? · · Score: 1
    Why unleash on real.com?

    Try mpaa.org or riaa.org. Might as well get some use out of them.